William Emerson Baker

1828 - 1888  (59 years)

• Name	William Emerson Baker
  Birth	16 Apr 1828	Boston, Suffolk, MA
  Gender	Male
  Census	18 Aug 1850	Roxbury, Norfolk, MA ; age 23, born MA, merchant, living with parents
  Census	2 Jul 1855	Boston, Suffolk, MA ; age 20, born MA, sewing machines
  Census	12 Jul 1860	Brookline, Norfolk, MA ; age 32, born MA, machinist, living with parents
  Census	1 May 1865	Boston, Suffolk, MA ; age 37, born MA, sewing machine mfg
  Census	2 Jun 1880	Boston, Suffolk, MA ; age 50, born MA, retired from sewing machines, parents born MA/MA
  Death	5 Jan 1888	Boston, Suffolk, MA
  Burial		Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, MA
  Person ID	I14225	Family Tree
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Abel Baker,   b. 16 Jun 1778, Littleton, Middlesex, MA d. 16 Aug 1867, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA (Age 89 years)
  Mother	Sarah B Reed,   b. 22 Dec 1791, Cambridge, Middlesex, MA d. 26 May 1867, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	3 Dec 1807	Littleton, Middlesex, MA
  Family ID	F5283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charlotte Augusta Farnsworth,   b. 1 May 1831, Boston, Suffolk, MA d. 28 Jan 1907, Boston, Suffolk, MA (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	20 Sep 1860
  Notes	from "Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915" (ancestry.com) On 20 Sep 1860 in Brookline MA, William Emerson Baker, 32, a manufacturer residing Brookline, b. Boston to Abel & Sarah E Baker, married Charlotte Augusta Farnsworth, 29, residing Roxbury, b. Boston to Walter & Elizabeth Fransworth. 1st marriage for both.
  Children	+ 1. Edward Farnsworth Baker,   b. 17 Sep 1865, Boston, Suffolk, MA d. 1934, Brookline, Norfolk, MA (Age 68 years)   2. Walter Farnsworth Baker,   b. 11 Nov 1870, Massachusetts d. 26 Oct 1907, Bogota, Bergen, NJ (Age 36 years)
  Family ID	F5314	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2018

  
  

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  William Emerson Baker Sketch

  
  

  Headstones		Abel & Sarah Baker Family Gravestone
  		Abel & Sarah Baker Family Gravestone Side 2 WILLIAM E. BAKER / 1828 - 1888 CHARLOTTE A. BAKER / 1831 - 1907 WALTER F. BAKER / 1870 - 1907 EDWARD F. BAKER / 1866 - 1934 R. MONROE BAKER / 1893 - 1970

  
  

• Notes

  from "Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society", 1907 William Emerson Baker, of Boston, Massachusetts, a Life Member, elected in 1857, was born in Boston, April 16, 1828, and died there, January 5, 1888. He was the son of Abel and Sarah (Reed) Baker, and a descendant of William Baker, of Concord, Massachusetts, through William, Captain Joseph, Timothy, and Abel, his father. He was in business as one of the celebrated firM of Grover and Baker Sewing Machine Company, and on his retirement devoted his time largely to the furtherance of educational matters. He was one of the first to propose and befriend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He married, September 20, 1860, Charlotte Augusta, daughter of Walter Farnsworth, of Boston. They had two sons, Walter Farnsworth Baker, and Edward Farnsworth Baker. He began his life in a dry goods store, and subsequently joined W.O. Grover in business. He spent several years abroad contesting patient suits, and returning to the United States, bought Ridge Hill Farm at Wellesley, Massachusetts, and spent the reminder of his life by gratifying his taste in its embellishment in a rather eccentric and curious manner.